An OMNY card isn’t necessary to ride the New York City subway if you have a credit or debit card with a chip, or a digital wallet in your smartphone. However, a physical OMNY card is also available ...

OMNY cards can be purchased or reloaded at OMNY vending machines in most subway stations or at select retail stores across the city, such as participating Walgreens, CVS, 7-Eleven, CFSC Checks Cashed ...

The MetroCard — a blue-and-yellow pass that for more than three decades let riders into New York’s vast subway network with a swipe — will be retired on Wednesday, replaced by the already popular ...

When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems. Now, more than ...

New York City’s iconic yellow transit payment, the MetroCard, makes its final swipes at the end of 2025. The last day for riders to purchase or refill their card will be on the last day of December.

For more than three decades, lifelong New Yorkers and tourists visiting the Big Apple have shared the experience of a MetroCard swipe gone wrong. Swiping the transit card too fast or too slow, with ...